The radical fiction of Ann Petry
By: Keith Clark
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780807150665
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: The "literary bones" of Ann Petry: excavating and re-situating a reluctant icon; title: From gangsta to gothic: ann petry's unbounded aesthetic universe; title: Black boys, hoods, and wannabes: images of imperiled Black manhood in the narrows; title: Masculine angst revisited: the anguished Black men of "Like a winding sheet," "Has anybody seen Miss Dora Dean?" and "Miss Muriel"; title: "Oppositional gothic": the street and Ann Petry's place in the literature of terror; title: Haunting/haunted b(l)ack: tormented and tormenting souls in "The bones of Louella Brown" and "The witness"; title: "Entombed while still alive": images of domestic terror and monstrousness in country place; title: "A queer mixture of violence and love and hate and terror": (wannabe) gangsta, gothic, and grotesquerie in "In darkness and confusion"; title: Conclusion: from the 1960s to the 2000s and beyond: Ann Petry's prescient vision.